| Bill Clearihue reports "In the Fall of 1943 was in his final year of Engineering and Physics at U of T when attested into the UNTD. As was required of Graduates, he had to attend a Naval Selection Board in late February 1944 to determine, what if anything the Navy were going to do with him and whether his plans might exempt him from further service. He does not appear to have gone into the wartime Navy, by choice or otherwise, but did attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, graduating there in 1947. He maintained a strong connection to that school, well into his Detroit days. He became the Chief Engineer of the Cadillac Division of GM in January, 1973. One of his first projects was to come up with a "smaller" model, in response to the Arab Oil Embargo amongst other things. That resulted in the Cadillac Seville making its first appearance in the 1975/76 year. It lasted through to 2004." |
